Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a litigious or contentious manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a litigious manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
litigious manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He had long been suspected as the real writer of the future president's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Profiles in Courage," an allegation Sorensen and the Kennedys emphatically – and litigiously – denied.
Ted Sorensen DEAD: John F. Kennedy Speechwriter, Obama Supporter, Dies At 82 AP 2010
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He had long been suspected as the real writer of the future president's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Profiles in Courage," an allegation Sorensen and the Kennedys emphatically – and litigiously – denied.
Ted Sorensen DEAD: John F. Kennedy Speechwriter, Obama Supporter, Dies At 82 AP 2010
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I sometimes wish GUD didn't publish adult-leaning content so that we could more easily market to perspicacious YA -- but at least in puritanical-US, that would be litigiously dangerous.
MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be? 2008
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Or did they merely reveal a hip that was already there, but that Singer, et alia litigiously denied had been accidentally obliterated?
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Some of Hollywood's litigiously-minded have taken to calling the deal "SueTube."
Boing Boing 2006
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He boasted that he stood up litigiously for the interests of the college; and he had undefined and undefinable ideas that the marshal intercepted a
Little Dorrit 2007
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The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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